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Get Ready for a 'Summer of Terror'

One Week, Five Terror Attacks: Beginnings of Another 'Summer of Terror'?

By the end of July last year, I noted that from the time of the Pulse dance club attack in Orlando that killed 49, Western countries were seeing ISIS-inspired terror attacks at the rate of one every 84 hours.

ISIS inspired or directed attacks outside Syria/Iraq occurring once every 84 hours since June 8 https://t.co/0Lh5LgphhF

And now, just hours before the beginning of the Christian Holy Week and a few days before Jewish Passover, the events of this past week may indicate that we're seeing the beginnings of yet another "Summer of Terror" comparable to last year's or perhaps surpassing it.

Just this week we've seen terror attacks in:

St. Petersburg, Russia

Vaucouleurs, France

Queanbeyan, Australia

Ofra, West Bank

Stockholm, Sweden

St. Petersburg, Russia

On Monday, a nail bomb carried by a suicide bomber ripped through a metro train in St. Petersburg; the attack, at last count, killed 14 people.

Monday night, Sarah Lucy Halimi, a 66-year-old doctor and Orthodox Jew, was stabbed while in her bed and then thrown over her third-floor balcony by a 27-year-old Muslim neighbor while he shouted, "Allah Akhbar":